Romanian Labour Minister Violeta Alexandru gives a news conference after talks with German Labour Minister Hubertus Heil in Berlin, Germany, May 19, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
BERLIN (Reuters) - The coronavirus crisis must prompt a rethink of the conditions in which some people from Eastern Europe work in the farms and food industry of Western Europe, Romania's labour minister said after outbreaks in German slaughterhouses.
Most of Europe's borders have been closed since late March as a result of governments' attempts to slow the spread of the virus, but 30,000 Romanian workers have been among the few who have continued to move, flown to Germany to work in the food sector on flights chartered by farmers.
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